A Sampling of Clips for 
June 21 - 23, 2003

* UCSD faculty and staff may obtain a copy of an article by e-mailing the University Communications Office

California; New Leader of UC System Is Upbeat About Challenges
Los Angeles Times, June 23— A focused, disciplined man with a quick, self-deprecating sense of humor, Robert C. Dynes, chancellor of UC San Diego, is certain to need all those qualities as he takes the helm of UC's 10-campus system this fall.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-dynes23jun23,1,5476271.story

The downside of statin drugs;
A UC San Diego researcher is tracking complaints of memory loss, mood changes and nerve and muscle pain.
Los Angeles Times, June 23—As more and more Americans take cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins, Dr. Beatrice A. Golomb has carved out a niche investigating a less-publicized aspect of these cardiac wonder drugs: patients' complaints of memory loss, irritability and nerve and muscle pain. Golobmb is currently an assistant professor of medicine at UC San Diego and also leads a study funded by the National Institutes of Health.
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-golomb23jun23,1,2641110.story

Statins: beyond cholesterol;
The widely used drugs show potential to aid the heart, strengthen the bones and even keep Alzheimer's at bay
Los Angeles Times, June 23— Doctors have been prescribing statins to millions of Americans because of the drugs' remarkable success at cutting a type of cholesterol that has been linked to heart disease. Now, a host of studies suggest that statins may have other significant benefits, from strengthening bones to lowering the risk of Alzheimer's disease. (Quote by Dr. Beatrice A. Golomb, an assistant professor at UC San Diego.)
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-statin23jun23,1,1321207.story

GOP Aims for Dominance in '04 Race
The Washington Post, June 22—Republican strategists see the 2004 election as their best opportunity in a generation to construct a durable governing majority, and they have set in motion a systematic and coordinated strategy designed to leverage President Bush's popularity and break the impasse that has dominated the country's politics since the mid-1990s. (Quotes Gary Jacobson, a political science professor at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19264-2003Jun21.html

Savant for a Day
The New York Times, June 22—Allan Snyder, one of the world's most remarkable scientists of human cognition, has developed the Medtronic Mag Pro, a Danish-made transcranial magnetic stimulator. Snyder has discovered that people undergoing transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS, could suddenly exhibit savant intelligence -- those isolated pockets of geniuslike mental ability that most often appear in autistic people. (Quote by Vilayanur Ramachandran, director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California at San Diego and the noted author of "Phantoms in the Brain.")
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/22/magazine/22SAVANT.html

Commentary; Politics Count, Not Excellence
Los Angeles Times, June 22— Commentary on selection of next supreme court justice by Peter Irons, a professor of political science at UC San Diego, and the author of "A People's History of the Supreme Court" (Viking,, 1999).
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-oe-irons22jun22,1,3995452.story

Affirmative Action Finds Its Defenders
Newshouse News Service, June 18— With the Supreme Court's decision on the University of Michigan affirmative action case imminent, America's power elite has let the justices know in no uncertain terms that when it comes to race-conscious social policy, the court ought not rock the boat. (Cites work by John Skrentny, a sociologist at the University of California at San Diego, who has detailed the history of affirmative action in his books, "The Ironies of Affirmative Action" and "The Minority Rights Revolution.")
http://www.newhouse.com/archive/tilove061903.html

The pulse - The latest medical research from around the world
The Weekend Australian, June 21— Scientists at the University of California, San Diego, believe they have isolated a mutant gene, which makes carriers hypersensitive to signaling chemicals in the brain that control mood -- triggering the extreme highs and lows that afflict manic-depressive patients.
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Frugal fairgoers find fun for less
North County Times, June 23—Although money is not on the mind of all who seek fun at this year’s San Diego County Fair, some fairgoers, do think about the costs and seek to minimize them. And they say that options are available to have a fun time with a minimal amount of cash: the Scripps Institution of Oceanography educational exhibit being a prime example.
http://www.nctimes.net/news/2003/20030623/11111.html

Guest Worker;
Cornyn proposal acknowledges immigration complexities
The Houston Chronicle, June 22—Texas' junior U.S. senator, John Cornyn, has added his voice to the eternal debate about immigration, with a proposal to institute a guest worker program.(Quote by Wayne Cornelius, director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego)
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CancerVax Treatment Goes Skin Deep
San Diego Business Journal, May 19— Now that U.S. regulators have lifted a yearlong clinical hold on Canvaxin, CancerVax Corp. CEO David Hale wants to put the experimental therapeutic vaccine to treat melanoma patients back on track for final drug approval. (Quote by Dr. Fred Millard, an associate professor at UC San Diego's Cancer Center.)
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